Imprints
a responsive sand table exploring tactile feedback and hidden discoveries
Explore a tactile world of rolling patterns. As you move around curiously textured balls to leave your trail in the sand, keep your senses open for feedback. You and your companions working together will create, explore, and discover.
Background
Imprints was conceived as a response to the theme of Feedback for a grant from Seattle Design Fest 2025. What at first glance appeared to be a simple sand table would invite curious exploration by rolling textured balls on the fine sand surface.
Hidden beneath this surface were a variety of magnetic obstacles that would impact your pattern, movable sections that would cause ripples in the sand far from where you are, and sensors that would trigger the very sand itself to vibrate and emit lights and sounds.
Credits
Imprints was a joint project by artists and makers from Seattle Makers: myself, Lilia D, Peregrine C, Levi O, and Alec .